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hos oss.
Prinsesse Irene
var vel ikke denne litt runde varianten
 men den har de samme freske farvene.
Jeg har tatt vare på pakkelappene, intensjonen om et lite arkiv
er der, men jeg ligger etter med det prosjektet... (også!)

Knappe to måneder 

til begynnende blomstring nå, vel...
Noe å glede seg til, 

mens vi fortsatt sklir på is... 
(fy, så glatt, ned til veien her nå - jeg griper fast i grener og gjerder)

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Favorites in our garden,
excpected from mid April.
Meanwhile we still have snow and ice in our garden,
only enough to make me hold on to fences and branches along my way.   

Grønn fryd hos Monique
participating
Our World Thuesday  Macro Monday 2    Blommig fredag

Glimt fra Tigerstaden alias Oslo

Fascinerende moderne offentlig gatekunst. Modern street art with butterflies in Oslo

Ton i ton, tilfeldig eller veloverveiet farvevalg?

Hva kom først, huset eller treet? Huset holdt visst lenger enn opprinnelig byggherre kunne se for seg.... A well grown tree, or a wall grown one?

Jeg vet en brolagt stille gate...  A quiet little street in the center of Oslo

En liten snarvei - her klatret vi noen trinn
sammen iblant, med handleposer, min mor og jeg. A steep short-cut         

Minnemarkeringer kan finnes på flere adresser i Oslo
hvor det bodde jøder som ble deportert under annen verdenskrig
Memorials for Jews deported from Oslo during WW2, 
when Norway was occupied for five years

All photos are views from Oslo, from last year's walks (except those two further down). 
A day ago there were snow all over, but nothing yesterday - 
it is February with rain, and the snow is vanished..
On February 6th it was the Nationalday of the Sami people, 
also with some festivity and celebrations in Oslo.
Several Sami people wore decorative, traditional outfits on this day, 
I saw a few, and listened to a concert with the traditional Sami 'joik' singing.
Mainly the Sami people live in Northern Norway/Northern Scandinavia, 
being a Scandinavian native population, traditionally based on reindeer herding; 
today also a lot live further south - like in Oslo - where there are no reindeer. 
Lately, I've been reading the old book 'Laila' with my kids,
about people in Sami environments decades ago
(the book was first published in 1881 and a silent movie based on this book was made in 1929). 

Sami festive outfits

The cutest little one with traditional Sami shoes 

Grønn fryd hos Monique 

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